I’m sorry Kendra, I haven’t taken your advice. I’m sorry that the fight left me. I was scared and unsure of the outside. Your advice after thirteen years of working for the same terrible place that I worked was simply this, “Don’t Settle.” I’m sorry. I have so very settled into my average of sixteen…Read more Don’t Settle: A Memorial and Lesson

My bird Sunny is proud, sweet and strong. She is a brilliant yellow with rosey red cheeks. She is almost twenty years old, which is quite an accomplishment for a cockatiel. Her feathers are thick and rich. The yellow feathers hide skin. No doubt, dried and cracked from age and experience. She has a few…Read more My Bird Sunny

These days are precious because they die. They die and die. They pile on the floor. They trip us as we go to the future. None are immortal. None are forgiven for their crime of being mortal. Mortal days with thin wafting hours. The shear number of them make them forgettable. There are a special…Read more Dead Days

Call me. Write me. I want to hear from you. I want to sit back and envelop myself in your life. In your voice. I want your ears to hear your story and I want the confidence that it is true to drive you forward in the telling. I want every fiber of your body…Read more Self Giving

Politics Please

Dear Sen. Grassly, I heard an exciting opportunity that really piqued my interest in the new tax reform goal of Congress. It would kill two birds with one stone! Koch officials like Tim Philips say that they will ‘close the piggy bank’ if we don’t hit the Republican goal of tax reform. So please, don’t […]

A few weeks ago, I submitted a comment to Joni Ernst about Healthcare. I was going to ignore it because her office is useless when it comes to thinking. When, I heard that she was working on the newest interaction of the tax cut for the wealthiest that Republicans are deceiving each other ton thinking […]